About
Natalie Dowse has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Her work is in public and private collections, including the Jonathan Vickers Collection, the Robert Priseman Collection at Falmouth Art Gallery and the Priseman-Seabrook Collection. Her work is also featured on the Art UK website of the UK National Collection.
She was the recipient of the Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award, a year-long residential project which culminated in her solo show Skimming the Surface at Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Natalie was awarded an international residency to Riga, Latvia, by the Arts Council England International Fellowship programme in partnership with Braziers International Artists’ Workshops. Natalie is a graduate of Falmouth School of Art (BA Fine Art) and the University of Portsmouth (MA Fine Art).
Natalie is a member of Contemporary British Painting
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Rogue Women 3
Rogue Artists’ Studios CIC, 2-6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU
5 -27 October 2024
Slow Painting: Surface Tension
Plough Arts Centre, 9-11 Fore St, Great Torrington, Torrington EX38 8HQ
30 June – 17 August 2024
Assembly
The Old Gym, Rye Creative Centre, New Rd, Rye TN31 7LS
3 – 18 May 2024
Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now
Gallery 1, Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 7HA
15 September 2023 – 28 January 2024
Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds LS2 9JT
26 April – 29 July 2023
X – Contemporary British Painting
Newcastle Contemporary Art, High Bridge Works, 31-39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1EW
20 May – 17 June 2023
Fenella Fielding: Actress
Gallery 286 London, 286 Earl’s Court Road, London SW5 9AS
8 November – 18 December 2022
Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting and Guests
Artspace Gallery, The Ropewalk, Maltkiln Road, Barton on Humber, North Lincolnshire DN18 5JT
10 September – 27 November 2022
Sound and Vision – where Music Meets Art
The Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, 35 Wimbledon Hill Road, London SW19 7NB
15 September – 6 October 2022
Conversations with Nature
Alison Critchlow, Helen Thomas & Natalie Dowse, Wakefield Art House, Wakefield
27 July – 21 August 2022
Wish you were here
Terrace Gallery, Leyton, London E10 6AE
2 June – 26 June 2022
Vitalistic Fantasies
Elysium Gallery, 210 High Street, Swansea SA1 1PE
4 June – 16 July 2022
Horizon (landscape and beyond)
The Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London SE1 8TJ
30 June – 10 July 2022
Paradoxes
CBP group exhibition, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK
12 March – 7 May 2022
Curated by Freya Purdue, Phil Illingworth and Natalie Dowse
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Going Home
GASP, Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK – 2013
Read the essay
Work in Progress
ARC, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK – 2010
Surveillance
GASP, Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK – 2009
Skimming the Surface
Vickers Art Award 2007-08, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, UK – 2008
Read the essay
Between the Lines
Millais Gallery, Southampton Solent University, Southampton, UK – 2007
Reflections of a City
e-t+t Residency Space, Riga, Latvia – 2006
My Little Whistlejacket
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK – 2000
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Darkness at Noon
CBP group exhibition, APT Gallery, London
View and download the Darkness at Noon catalogue
ArtTop10 “Lockdown Interviews” Exhibition
Cello Factory, London.
2020
Vitalistic Fantasies
CBP group exhibition, The Cello Factory, Waterloo, London
View and download the Vitalistic Fantasies catalogue
In Search of a New World
Online exhibition, Southampton City Art Gallery
Yes/No
A visual Open Studio, Contemporary British Painting
PROCESS & PROGRESS: Artists of the Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award
The Museum and Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby, DE1 1BS
A Life in Nature
Quay Arts, 15 Sea Street, Newport Harbour, Isle of Wight PO30 5BD
2019
Mountain Size
Pineapple Black, Hillstreet Centre, Middlesbrough, TS1 1SU
Contemporary British Painting
Norwich Cathedral, Norwich
View and download the catalogue
Made in Britain
82 Painters of the 21st Century, The National Museum, Gdansk, Poland
New Painting
Contemporary British Painting Exhibition, The Crypt, Marylebone St London
2018
Testcard P
Curated by Marco Cali, The Crypt, Marylebone St London
Contemporary Masters from Britain
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Tianjin, China (January 2018)
2017
Contemporary Masters from Britain
Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Contemporary Masters from Britain
Jiangsu Arts and Crafts Museum, Nanjing, China
Contemporary Masters from Britain
The Yantai Art Museum, Yantai, China
Anything Goes?
Selected by Anna McNay, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
Quay Arts Open
Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK
Small Works Group Exhibition
Jack House Gallery, Old Portsmouth, UK
2016
30 x 30 x 34
CBP Annual Group Show, St Marylebone Crypt, St Marylebone Road, London, UK
Wells Art Contemporary
Bishop’s Palace, Wells Cathedral, Somerset, UK
Contemporary British Painting Summer Exhibition
Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, UK
Sixty
Art-Athina, Athens, Greece with Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes
Sixty
Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK
2015
Contemporary British Painting Group Show
St Marylebone Crypt, St Marylebone Road, London, UK
Documentary Realism: Painting in the Digital Age
St Marylebone Crypt, St Marylebone Road, London, UK
2014
@PaintBritain
Ipswich Art School Gallery, Colchester & Ipswich Museums, Ipswich, UK
Contemporary British Painting
Priseman-Seabrook Collection, Huddersfiled Art Gallery, Huddersfiled, UK
Close Encounters
Jeannie Driver & Natalie Dowse, GASP, Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
About Time
GASP, Art Space Portsmouth, UK
2013
100 Artists
WW Gallery, London, UK
Salon Des Refuses
GASP, Art Space Portsmouth, UK
Rock Paper Scissors
GASP, Art Space Portsmouth, UK
2012
BOGOF
WW Gallery, London, UK
2010
Quay Arts Open
Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, UK
2009
800 feet
SPACE, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
2008
New Encounters
Tregoning Gallery, Derby, UK
2007
Liminal
Candid Galleries, Islington, London, UK
Sugar and Spice
Vegas Gallery, Shoreditch, London, UK
2006
Rework/Replay
Grey Area, Brighton, UK
April Fool’s Trucker Prize
Truck Art – Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Drawing Space
Artspace, Southwell, Nottinghamshire
2005
Redundancy
Access Aspex, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Common Ground
ArtSway, New Forest, Hampshire, UK
2000
This town ain’t big enough for the both of us
Mike Blackman & Natalie Dowse, Ether Gallery, Portsmouth
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2008 – The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award & Fellowship for painting
2006 – Arts Council England and Braziers Fellowship, Riga Latvia
1996 – Art Space Portsmouth Sponsored Studio Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Priseman-Seabrook Collection
Robert Priseman Gift Collection, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK
Jonathan Vickers Collection, Derbyshire, UK
University of Essex Collection
EDUCATION
1992 – Falmouth School of Art & Design – BA (hons) Fine Art
1996 – University of Portsmouth – MA Fine Art